Fintech
FinTech (financial technology) is a catch-all term referring to software, mobile applications, and other technologies created to improve and automate traditional forms of finance for businesses and consumers alike.
The entrepreneurial vibe that is pushing growth at Starling Bank
Monday 16 December 2019
We sat down with Anne Boden, CEO at Starling Bank to talk about SMEs, startup expansion and cheeky tweets about USD accounts at FinTECHTalents 2019. Watch the video now. You are entrepreneurial. How does that vibe translate here? Well it’s been quite a journey getting to where we are today and our role in life
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If the customers aren’t better off – FinTech is useless
Monday 16 December 2019
We sat down with Aritra Chakravarty, CEO at Dozens to talk about the future of banking, customer incentives and providing a platform for use by banks and emerging FinTech companies at FinTECHTalents 2019. Watch the video now. Do banks play a central role in our future? In the debate I sort of differentiated between banking
- Published in Customer Experience, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Start-ups, Video
Dark secrets, financial services and Open Source
Monday 16 December 2019
We sat down with Nigel Abbott, Regional Director, North EMEA at GitHub to talk about how Open Source is being used in financial services at FinTECHTalents 2019. Watch the video now. Is Open Source a ‘dark secret’ in financial services? I think for a number of reasons I would suspect that there’s an element of
- Published in Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Video
FinTECHTalents 2019 was a blast!
Monday 16 December 2019
As we cleared away the last of the beer cups and stored our guitars at the launch of FinTECHTalents in 2018 we all had one thought: How do we make 2019 Bigger, Better, Bolder and, most importantly, Braver. And, in order to be brave, you need to take risks – you need to move away
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Opinion, Video
Offering the online world to financial services
Tuesday 26 November 2019
FinTECHTalents sits down with Steve Fogue, CEO, Particeep on how their solutions leverage the retail online customer experience for financial services. What is Particeep – what problem are you solving? Particeep offers banks, insurers, asset management companies, and their distributors ready-to-use solutions to market their services online and simplify their API exposure to third-party distributors.
- Published in Customer Experience, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Interviews, Start-ups
Brexit-proof payments with fire
Tuesday 26 November 2019
Dublin-based fire.com seeks to support corporate, SMEs, sole traders and self-employed workers with quick and simple integrated payments solutions. What is fire.com – what problems are you solving? fire.com is the complete solution for integrated payments. It is designed for businesses and other financial institutions to get easy access to a range of payment services. It supports
- Published in Customer Experience, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Payments
Community of the future for financial services
Tuesday 05 November 2019
Italian banking body, CBI, takes to the FinTECHTalents stage to outline CBI Globe – it’s newly launched Global Open Banking Ecosystem. CBI has been serving the Italian payments market for 20 years – what brings you to FinTECHTalents? The Italian banks, like most continental retail banks, are facing different challenges related to improved profitability, fulfilling
- Published in Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Interviews, Partnership, Payments, Start-ups
Show me the (tokenised) money
Sunday 03 November 2019
I was listening to a panel about Security Tokens last week and couldn’t avoid thinking that I somehow time-travelled to 2029, scratching my head in an attempt to remember what Michael J Fox did to go back in time… While some of the content was deep, it generally felt like a(nother) missed opportunity to talk
- Published in Blockchain, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Payments
Open banking opens the door to personalised credit options
Sunday 03 November 2019
FCA-authorised credit bureau, Credit Kudos, believes traditional credit scoring is broken. Here they tell us how to fix it. What is Credit Kudos? Fairer Credit For All. Credit Kudos is an FCA-authorised credit bureau and Open Banking Account Information Service Provider (AISP) that uses financial behaviour to measure creditworthiness. Through direct connections to the UK’s largest
- Published in Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Interviews, Partnership, Start-ups
AccountScore – The FinTech Story so far…
Sunday 03 November 2019
At the launch of FinTECHTalents in 2018 – AccountScore were the first on the stage telling a story about providing clients with access to bank transaction data through Open Banking and delivering cutting-edge transaction analytics to drive value. The London Based company will kick off the FinTech Stories Stage again for FinTECHTalents 2019. We caught
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